Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 570970
finch: bloated dependencies
Last modified: 2015-02-17 08:16:35 EST
Description of problem: There are way too many dependencies when installing finch on a server without X. If irssi can get away without a million dependencies, finch should be able to as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.6-1.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a minimal Fedora 2. # yum install finch 3. see a huge list of dependencies that are going to be dragged in Actual results: ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: finch x86_64 2.6.6-1.fc12 updates 241 k Installing for dependencies: GConf2 x86_64 2.28.0-4.fc12 updates 963 k ORBit2 x86_64 2.14.17-3.fc12 fedora 160 k alsa-lib x86_64 1.0.22-2.fc12 updates 369 k atk x86_64 1.28.0-1.fc12 fedora 171 k avahi-glib x86_64 0.6.25-5.fc12 fedora 19 k cairo x86_64 1.8.8-3.fc12 fedora 288 k cdparanoia-libs x86_64 10.2-5.fc12 fedora 45 k cyrus-sasl-md5 x86_64 2.1.23-4.fc12 fedora 44 k cyrus-sasl-plain x86_64 2.1.23-4.fc12 fedora 29 k farsight2 x86_64 0.0.16-1.fc12 fedora 158 k flac x86_64 1.2.1-6.fc12 fedora 230 k fontconfig x86_64 2.8.0-1.fc12 updates 186 k freetype x86_64 2.3.11-3.fc12 updates 357 k gnome-keyring x86_64 2.28.2-2.fc12 updates 813 k gssdp x86_64 0.7.1-1.fc12 updates 40 k gstreamer x86_64 0.10.25.1-3.fc12 updates 744 k gstreamer-plugins-base x86_64 0.10.25.1-2.fc12 updates 896 k gstreamer-plugins-good x86_64 0.10.17-4.fc12 updates 1.1 M gstreamer-tools x86_64 0.10.25.1-3.fc12 updates 22 k gtk2 x86_64 2.18.7-1.fc12 updates 3.3 M gupnp x86_64 0.13.2-1.fc12 updates 65 k gupnp-igd x86_64 0.1.3-3.fc12 fedora 23 k hicolor-icon-theme noarch 0.11-1.fc12 fedora 39 k jack-audio-connection-kit x86_64 0.118.0-1.fc12 updates 170 k jasper-libs x86_64 1.900.1-14.fc12 fedora 140 k libICE x86_64 1.0.6-1.fc12 fedora 51 k libIDL x86_64 0.8.13-2.fc12 fedora 79 k libSM x86_64 1.1.0-7.fc12 fedora 25 k libX11 x86_64 1.3-1.fc12 fedora 582 k libX11-common noarch 1.3-1.fc12 fedora 188 k libXau x86_64 1.0.5-1.fc12 fedora 21 k libXcomposite x86_64 0.4.1-2.fc12 fedora 17 k libXcursor x86_64 1.1.10-1.fc12 fedora 31 k libXdamage x86_64 1.1.2-1.fc12 fedora 16 k libXext x86_64 1.1-2.fc12 updates 33 k libXfixes x86_64 4.0.4-1.fc12 fedora 19 k libXft x86_64 2.1.13-4.fc12 fedora 47 k libXi x86_64 1.3-2.fc12 updates 32 k libXinerama x86_64 1.1-1.fc12 fedora 15 k libXrandr x86_64 1.3.0-5.fc12 updates 30 k libXrender x86_64 0.9.5-1.fc12 fedora 27 k libXtst x86_64 1.0.99.2-3.fc12 fedora 21 k libXv x86_64 1.0.5-1.fc12 fedora 21 k libasyncns x86_64 0.8-1.fc12 fedora 24 k libavc1394 x86_64 0.5.3-9.fc12 fedora 43 k libdv x86_64 1.0.0-8.fc12 fedora 74 k libfreebob x86_64 1.0.11-6.fc12 fedora 129 k libgudev1 x86_64 145-15.fc12 updates 53 k libiec61883 x86_64 1.2.0-3.fc12 fedora 34 k libnice x86_64 0.0.9-2.fc12 fedora 95 k libogg x86_64 2:1.1.4-2.fc12 fedora 20 k liboil x86_64 0.3.16-4.fc12 fedora 114 k libproxy x86_64 0.2.3-12.fc12 fedora 33 k libproxy-bin x86_64 0.2.3-12.fc12 fedora 7.6 k libproxy-python x86_64 0.2.3-12.fc12 fedora 7.6 k libpurple x86_64 2.6.6-1.fc12 updates 5.6 M libraw1394 x86_64 2.0.4-1.fc12 fedora 51 k libshout x86_64 2.2.2-5.fc12 fedora 39 k libsilc x86_64 1.1.10-1.fc12 fedora 327 k libsndfile x86_64 1.0.20-3.fc12 updates 176 k libsoup x86_64 2.28.2-1.fc12 updates 162 k libthai x86_64 0.1.12-2.fc12 fedora 168 k libtheora x86_64 1:1.1.0-1.fc12 fedora 119 k libv4l x86_64 0.6.4-1.fc12 updates 105 k libvisual x86_64 0.4.0-9.fc12 fedora 126 k libvorbis x86_64 1:1.2.3-4.fc12 updates 170 k libxcb x86_64 1.5-1.fc12 updates 99 k meanwhile x86_64 1.1.0-2.fc12 fedora 89 k pango x86_64 1.26.2-1.fc12 updates 347 k pixman x86_64 0.16.6-1.fc12 updates 136 k pulseaudio-libs x86_64 0.9.21-4.fc12 updates 428 k sgml-common noarch 0.6.3-31.fc12 updates 42 k speex x86_64 1.2-0.12.rc1.fc12 fedora 92 k taglib x86_64 1.6.1-2.fc12 updates 207 k wavpack x86_64 4.60-1.fc12 fedora 111 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 76 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total download size: 21 M Is this ok [y/N]: Expected results: way fewer dependencies pulled in with it Additional info: if irssi can work without having millions of dependencies, finch should be able to, too
ok, so I looked at the dependencies more carefully... Here are the changes I'm guessing could be made: Remove from finch: farsight2 gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base libX11 Remove from libpurple: avahi? (if so, avahi-glib, too) farsight2 gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base I'm guessing that removing the deps from libpurple might require splitting it into two packages
Stripping any of avahi, farsight2, gstreamer or gstreamer-plugins-base dependencies would require considerable code changes to libpurple that would need to happen upstream. There isn't actually a direct dependency on gstreamer-plugins-base anyway. The best that can be achieved with packaging changes would be removing the direct dependency on libX11 from finch by moving the gntclipboard and gntgf gnt plugins to a finch-X11 package. However, there won't actually be any benefit from doing that because libX11 is still pulled in as a dependency via farsight2 -> gstreamer-plugins-good -> gstreamer-plugins-base -> libX11.so.6
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